We want to get a dress done to-day mighty bad, but Margaret is slow about sewing, and she never can finish alone, so I came after you." "And it's such a simple little matter, so dead easy; and all so between old friends like, that you can't look above your boots while you explain it," sneered Mrs.Comstock.

"Wesley Sinton, what put the idea into your head that Elnora would take things bought with money, when she wouldn't take the money ?" Then Sinton's eyes came up straightly.
"Finding her on the trail last night sobbing as hard as I ever saw any one at a funeral.

She wasn't complaining at all, but she's come to me all her life with her little hurts, and she couldn't hide how she'd been laughed at, twitted, and run face to face against the fact that there were books and tuition, unexpected, and nothing will ever make me believe you didn't know that, Kate Comstock." "If any doubts are troubling you on that subject, sure I knew it! She was so anxious to try the world, I thought I'd just let her take a few knocks and see how she liked them." "As if she'd ever taken anything but knocks all her life!" cried Wesley Sinton.

"Kate Comstock, you are a heartless, selfish woman.

You've never shown Elnora any real love in her life.